From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: imp@bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:26:06 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [TUHS] *nixs
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In message: <000701c66989$d8aa18e0$1901a8c0 at myhome.westell.com>
            "Bill Cunningham" <billcu1 at verizon.net> writes:
:     This xenix and venix OS thing. Where did these OSs come from? If minix
: and BSD are direct descendants of v4,5,6,7 where does linux fit in here?

venix was a v6 port to the 8086 and pdp-11 (the Digital Professional
computers).  It was notable because it ran on the Digital Rainbow 100.
Later there was a 286 port of v7.  I believe venturacom created this
port.

Warner